A comprehensive study of microwave vacuum electronic devices and
their current and future applications

While both vacuum and solid-state electronics continue to evolve
and provide unique solutions, emerging commercial and military
applications that call for higher power and higher frequencies to
accommodate massive volumes of transmitted data are the natural
domain of vacuum electronics technology. Modern Microwave and
Millimeter-Wave Power Electronics provides systems designers,
engineers, and researchers-especially those with primarily
solid-state training-with a thoroughly up-to-date survey of the
rich field of microwave vacuum electronic device (MVED)
technology.

This book familiarizes the R&D and academic communities with
the capabilities and limitations of MVED and highlights the
exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past decade that are
dramatically increasing the compactness, efficiency,
cost-effectiveness, and reliability of this entire class of
devices.

This comprehensive text explores a wide range of topics:

Traveling-wave tubes, which form the backbone of satellite and
airborne communications, as well as of military electronic
countermeasures systems

Microfabricated MVEDs and advanced electron beam sources

Klystrons, gyro-amplifiers, and crossed-field devices

"Virtual prototyping" of MVEDs via advanced 3-D computational
models

High-Power Microwave (HPM) sources

Next-generation microwave structures and circuits

How to achieve linear amplification

Advanced materials technologies for MVEDs

A Web site appendix providing a step-by-step walk-through of a
typical MVED design process

Concluding with an in-depth examination of emerging applications
and future possibilities for MVEDs, Modern Microwave and
Millimeter-Wave Power Electronics ensures that systems
designers and engineers understand and utilize the significant
potential of this mature, yet continually developing technology.

SPECIAL NOTE: All of the editors' royalties realized from the
sale of this book will fund the future research and publication
activities of graduate students in the vacuum electronics
field.

ROBERT J. BARKER, PhD, is the program manager for ElectroEnergetic
Physics at the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. A
Fellow of both the IEEE and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory,
he is coeditor of High-Power Microwave Sources and Technologies
(Wiley-IEEE Press).

JOHN H. BOOSKE, PhD, is a professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has
published over ninety peer-reviewed journal articles and has
received the University of Wisconsin's prestigious Chancellor's
Distinguished Teaching Award and the Vilas Associates Award for
research excellence.

NEVILLE C. LUHMANN Jr., PhD, is a professor in the departments
of Applied Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of California at Davis. He won the 1994 Robert L.
Woods/DoD Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics.

GREGORY S. NUSINOVICH, PhD, is a Fellow of the IEEE and a senior
research scientist with the Institute for Research in Electronics
and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland at College
Park.

"...a very good up to date survey on the status of microwave power
electronics covering a lot of technical details. Scientists and
researchers in vacuum electronic devices will certainly like to
have this book." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine,
November/December 2006)

"Expected to be in high demand due to its specialized in-depth
coverage and easy to read style, plus the fact that little else is
out there on this in one volume." (E-STREAMS, November
2006)

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